Showing posts with label Rabindranath Tagore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rabindranath Tagore. Show all posts

Saturday, August 24, 2019

Where the mind is in fear


Where the mind is in fear
and the head is in gloom and pain
Where knowledge is enslaved
Where the world is being broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from manufactured lies
Where hollow praises and gloating attain puerile crescendo
Where the stream of reason is a muddy quicksand
In the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by coterie
Into submission and eternal flattery
Into this hell bent fiefdom, dear father
let not this country awake.


Thursday, August 15, 2013

AR Rahman - Jagao Mera Desh

ARR has done it again. His magic never ceases to run out. How do you make Rabindranath Tagore fashionable and appealing to today's youth? How do you mix rap in a patriotic song (something foreign in the India context, atleast till recently)?

Mixing lyrics and singing in different languages in the same song, is not entirely new, but is something ARR himself has employed many times in the past. And this one again shows how that can appeal to youth in India today.



Prasoon Joshi's lyrics, his translation of Tagore's song, beautifully complement the song. Or maybe it is the otherway around. The finish is particularly fabulous. 

This is one my favourite poems, "Heaven of Freedom". It was also one of the earliest or the first blog i wrote. Since i moved my blogs around a bit, i think i lost some of the dates. But i could be wrong too.